The Divorce That Made Me Whole

Synopsis

After seven years of marriage, I stood outside my husband, Andrew Hughes's office and overheard him setting up a trust. The beneficiary wasn't me, nor was it our daughter. It was the woman he'd never let go of—his first love, Emily Shaw. Peter Jacobs, a friend of Andrew's, asked him, "You're giving her your safety net? What about your wife?" He replied, "She's reasonable. She won't cause trouble." That night, for the first time, I didn't go home. The next day, his first love came over, holding my daughter's hand, and said to me, "Mrs. Hughes, don't be so petty."